Beth Cato is taking over my blog today to tell you about her newest novella in her Clockwork Dagger series, Wings of Sorrow and Bone. You can read an excerpt of the novella over at James Kendley's blog. Beth gives us a haunting new take on gremlins with gorgeous writing and great characters.

She is in the process of a blog tour, sharing excerpts and facts about her Clockwork Dagger world along the way. Don't miss it ... give her a follow so you can keep up with all of the good bits going on around this series!

Wings of Sorrow and Bone

How can two teenage girls defeat a man who is both a political powerhouse and a brilliant scientist, and save his laboratory gremlins from more foul experimentation?

That's the dilemma I faced as I started writing "Wings of Sorrow and Bone: a Clockwork Dagger Novella." My Clockwork Dagger books are filled with magic, ranging from the powerful healing gift of my heroine Octavia to aether-run airships to fire wielded on the field of war. But this novella, a follow-up to my second book The Clockwork Crown, features two girls who have no magical powers but are brilliant in different ways.

Rivka is a mechanist who daydreams of apprenticeship and endless inventions. She has only recently escaped a life of poverty and abuse, but by grit she's determined to make a new life for herself. When she stumbles upon Balthazar Cody's laboratory full of gremlins, she recognizes creatures who are caged and tormented, as she once was. She can't walk away. She must act.

Her ally is a not-so-good-guy from The Clockwork Crown. Tatiana Garret is Alonzo's little sister. She's intelligent, precocious, and manipulative to an extreme. She uses and disposes people like chess board pieces. Her interest in Mr. Cody's laboratory may not exactly be philanthropic, but Rivka is up against one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in all of Tamarania. She needs all the help she can get.

This is a novella about girl power and gremlins, and it's just 99-cents for the ebook!

Wings of Sorrow and Bone: A Clockwork Dagger Novella

A few months after the events of The Clockwork Crown ...

After being rescued by Octavia Leander from the slums of Caskentia, Rivka Stout is adjusting to her new life in Tamarania. But it’s hard for a blossoming machinist like herself to fit in with proper society, and she’d much rather be tinkering with her tools than at a hoity-toity party any day.

When Rivka stumbles into a laboratory run by the powerful Balthazar Cody, she also discovers a sinister plot involving chimera gremlins and the violent Arena game Warriors. The innocent creatures will end up hurt, or worse, if Rivka doesn’t find a way to stop Mr. Cody. And to do that means she will have to rely on some unexpected new friends.